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Dear Socrates
Dear Socrates
Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
Dear Socrates,
This is highly unusual, but I see no reason not to go ahead with it and a good reason for doing so. I am writing to you, even though I am your fellow columnist in Philosophy Now. I have been grappling with an issue, which I was going to write about myself; but then it occurred to me that this issue is "yours" if ever there was one.
It relates to one of my earlier columns (in Issue 54) about a chronic health problem I have. I experience pain, which is usually moderate but occasionally excruciating.
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